Thursday, January 11, 2018

How to find your System details using inxi

https://www.ostechnix.com/how-to-find-your-system-details-using-inxi

There are so many free and
paid applications available to display or find the Linux system details.
Today, we will be discussing how to find your Linux desktop or server
details using a simple and yet useful tool called “inxi”. It
is free, open source, and full featured command line system system
information tool. It shows system hardware, CPU, drivers, Xorg, Desktop,
Kernel, GCC version(s), Processes, RAM usage, and a wide variety of
other useful information. Be it a hard disk or CPU, mother board or the
complete detail of the entire system, inxi will display it more
accurately in seconds. Since it is CLI tool, you can use it in Desktop
or server edition. Inxi is available in the default repositories of most
Linux distributions and some BSD systems.

Install inxi

Like I said, inxi tool is available in most Linux distribution repositories.

On Arch Linux and derivatives:

To install inxi in Arch Linux or its derivatives like Antergos, and Manajaro Linux, run:

sudo pacman -S inxi

On Debian / Ubuntu and derivatives:

sudo apt-get install inxi

On Fedora / RHEL / CentOS / Scientific Linux:

inxi is available in the Fedora default repositories. So, just run the following command to install it straight away.

sudo dnf install inxi

In RHEL and its clones like CentOS and Scientific Linux, you need to add the EPEL repository and then install inxi.

To install EPEL repository, just run:

sudo dnf install epel-release

Or,

sudo yum install epel-release

After installing EPEL repository, install inxi using command:

sudo dnf install inxi

Or,

sudo dnf install inxi

On SUSE/openSUSE:

sudo zypper install inxi

How to use inxi?

inxi will require some additional
programs to operate properly. They will be installed along with inxi.
However, in case if they are not installed automatically, you need to
find and install them.

To list all required programs, run:

inxi --recommends

If you see any missing programs, then install them before start using inxi.

Now, let us see how to use it to reveal the Linux system details. inxi usage is pretty simple and straight forward.

Open up your Terminal and run the following command to find the complete details of your system.

That’s all for now. The primary purpose
of this tool is to use in IRC or forum support. If you are looking for
any help via a forum or website where someone is asking the
specification of your system, just run this command, and copy/paste the
output.

And, that’s all. Hope you find this tool useful. More good stuffs to come. Stay tuned!